Neverland Company, the developers of Lufia, Rune Factory, and the Shining Force Neo and EXA games, will cease operations on November 29 2013 because they have failed to successfully raise funds to continue their business. In a few days they will officially begin bankruptcy proceedings.

What! If there was ever a time for that Star Wars NOOOOOOO picture it is now. I just discovered how great Rune Factory 3 is (should have been in the DS top 20 list). Please tell me that Rune Factory games will not cease to be made. Sad news indeed.

I didn't even realize this happened until just now when i randomly looked for news about Lufia. I don't know how Rune Factor 4 did but it's pretty well known that Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals crashed really, really hard. It launched at like, 17th in sales for its first week, got lukewarm review from Famitsu and was largely ignored in the States despite decent reviews. After a game crashes that hard its hard to expect good news, I guess.

Really makes me sad because I think every time Neverland made a Lufia game it was pretty good (YMMV with III, but I thought it was pretty ambitious for a GBC title). Likely we'll never see another Lufia game again.

Dunno if it's a seperate team, but the Rune Factory team is said to be working on a new game though.

200 Nigerian girls between the ages of 12-15 were kidnapped from their school and sold to slavery thanks to efforts made by the terrorist group, Boko Haram.

I'm childless and probably will be for a long, long time, but I can project my mum and dad, or just try to even imagine the amount of grief felt by the parents right now... I think it's one thing for your child to die (heaven forbid), but a whole new hurt when they're alive and someone's property.